Minna Salami

About Minna Salami

Minna Salami is a Finnish and Nigerian journalist and owner/editor of the website MsAfropolitan.com, which she created in 2010 to write on themes "ranging from polygamy to feminism to relationships". She was also a regular contributor to The Guardian and contributed two articles to Aljazeera.com. She is a member of the Global Educator Network of Duke University, the Africa Network and The Guardian Books Network.

Salami graduated from Lund University, Sweden, with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Political Science, and from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) with a Master of Arts degree (MA). In 2016, she participated at the Hong Kong Baptist University International Writers' Workshop as a fellow.

Salami's first book Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone was published in 2010 and her 2025 work Can Feminism Be African? was reviewed in Brittle Paper by Ainehi Edoro, who stated that "Can Feminism Be African? resists easy answers. It is part essay, part philosophical reflection, and very timely. In a world obsessed with metrics and fixes, Salami reminds us that African feminism can also be about resistance and world-building."